Here on North C Street, we welcome the promise of spring that March brings.
This cold, wet winter has hit our homeless guests hard; the lucky ones have a
homeless program or motel room to shelter them from the weather. Many others, by Sacramento County's reckoning well over a thousand others, are actually living outside. The federal government has an official designation to describe this disgraceful situation: sleeping in "a place not meant for human habitation."

Our guests seek shelter wherever they can. In Sacramento, people live in or
spend the night on:

Church Steps

In Storage Units

Concrete Sewer Pipes

Dumpsters

Tents

Tarps

Under Parked Trucks

Tunnels under Downtown and Old Sacramento

On Rooftops of Retail and Commercial Buildings

Porta-Potties

Abandoned Buildings

Bushes

Parking Garages

Cars, Vans, and Trucks, Operable and Inoperable

Vacant Lots

Along the Rivers

Boats

All-Night Copy Shops

All-Night Coffee Shops

Rented U-Haul Vans

Under Freeways and Bridges

Alleys

Doorways

Shipping Crates

Benches

Under Building Overhangs

Bus Stations

Warehouses

Hospital Waiting Rooms

Construction Sites

Cardboard Boxes

Imagine how incredibly difficult daily life becomes when you have nowhere of
your own to lay down your head. If you dare to stay outside for more than one
night in the same place, you are even breaking the law and can be arrested!

Please help us welcome those who have no home, help us give them a place to
eat, to shower, to change into clean clothes, to rest, to receive mail, to be
greeted cheerfully by name. Your financial support is greatly needed so that
Loaves & Fishes may continue to provide this much-needed refuge from the
streets.

We will also speak up for and with our guests until there is SafeGround in
Sacramento, an outdoor campus where homeless men and women can live legally in a safe, sanitary, and empowering community.